The seventh race of the Formula 1 World Championship is here. The 20 drivers on the grid will meet this Sunday, May 29, at the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo. The competition continues in Europe for the second consecutive week, with Max Verstappen (Red Bull) as the new leader of the championship and Charles Leclerc (Ferrari), who will play at home, having to settle for second place.
The Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix race will start this Sunday at 3:00 p.m. at the Circuit de Monaco, in Monte Carlo, and can be seen live on DAZN. You can also follow minute by minute on the La Vanguardia website.
The Monte Carlo circuit has been in recent history the scene of a three-way war between Red Bull, Mercedes and Ferrari. Although in 2021 the victory went to Red Bull's Max Verstappen, it is the Mercedes team that has finished the Monaco Grand Prix in first place the most times in the last decade, with four (Nico Rosberg and Lewis Hamilton , both twice). In the last ten Grand Prix races held in the Principality, up to six different drivers have crossed the finish line without a car ahead of them.
This year it seems difficult for Mercedes to repeat its success, but the 'silver arrows' can never be ruled out. George Russell and Lewis Hamilton currently occupy fourth and sixth place in the standings, respectively, and little by little they are improving their sensations at the wheel of a single-seater that became “undrivable”, in the words of Toto Wolff.
The Spanish Grand Prix was a turning point for the Formula 1 World Championship. The Monegasque Charles Leclerc started the championship with an overwhelming superiority, but the reigning monarch of motorsport, Max Verstappen, was reducing the distance race after race. After two consecutive wins, he added the third at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya before 121,667 spectators, which allowed him, added to the abandonment of Leclerc, to snatch the crown.
The two Spanish drivers on the grid, Fernando Alonso (Alpine) and Carlos Sainz (Ferrari), left their homeland in high spirits. The Spaniard was able to score points again after a series of races in which misfortune after misfortune followed one another. He started in Montmeló last, but crossed the finish line in ninth position, which allowed him to get two more points for the classification (15th). For his part, the man from Madrid stayed at the gates of the podium, although he gave himself the license to make the respectable man stand up with him overtaking Hamilton on the penultimate lap. In the world, he is fifth.
The abandonment of Charles Leclerc in Montmeló cost him the leadership of the World Cup. The one who until now had been the most constant driver in qualifying returned to fulfill his predominant role in qualifying, in which he achieved his fourth pole position in six Grands Prix. However, Verstappen's victory in the race allowed the Dutchman to ascend the throne.
